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Level 4
September 19, 2021
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password security

  • September 19, 2021
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stop taking up my time with your security parinoid. you take up my time and time is $$$ i pay you enough $2700 , i need to take care of my business not yours. leave me alone and think up somthing else to keep you busy

 

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Intuit Community Champion
September 19, 2021

Its the IRS with the "security Paranode" not Intuit. See link for IRS requirements:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4557.pdf

BobKamman
Level 15
September 19, 2021

I get the impression from some of the posts here that two-step verification, requiring a code to be sent by phone every time the program is opened, is a default from which some users don't know how to opt out. 

Yesterday I had to open the 2017 program.  When I was forced to change my current password, it also automatically changed for the 2019 program.  But 2017 still uses the password from back then.  Of course I don't remember it but the program stored a hint that I had entered.  So I got into 2017, but then I think I also had to use the current password.  The program worked fine but it wouldn't print on my current printer, even though I changed the setting.  But it did save a pdf, which I then could print.  

I worry more about a smash-and-grab thief taking the whole computer from my office in the five minutes before police respond to an alarm.  It's easy enough to decode the encrypted files, once you have the machine.  The real concerns are how much security Intuit has for its servers, and whether IRS has any more security than the other federal government agencies that have been hacked.  

Intuit Community Champion
September 19, 2021

@BobKamman Are you using ProSeries, because I am able to open all years with my current password, and I don't use  two-step verification . I do agree with you about smash and grab being more of a problem

BobKamman
Level 15
September 19, 2021

@Terry53029  Yes, ProSeries Pro.  What I worry about is when I buy a new computer and have to reinstall these past years on it.  I already have a couple of old computers stored in a closet, but now I don't remember which was used in what years.